Afghan Women: Eyes on the Future
Length: 01:30  Type of program: Current Affairs

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Not scheduled (again) this week


A special live call-in show about Afghan women, with a live link to participants of the Afghan Women's Summit, held on December 4 � 6, 2001 at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. WorldLink TV viewers called in their questions to Sahar Saba of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA); Suria Paikan, a Lawyer with UNSMA, the United Nations Special Mission for Afghanistan; and Marzia Ali, Program Coordinator of Refuge Action Montreal in Canada, where she has worked to sponsor hundreds of Afghan refugees. Joining the discussion from the WorldLink TV Studios in San Francisco was Dr. Farid Younos, Islamic scholar and educator. The Afghan Womens' Summit was sponsored by European Women's Lobby , Equality Now, V-Day, and the Center for Strategic Initiatives of Women. The Summit was held in collaboration with the Gender Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and UNIFEM. Fifty Afghan women leaders, broadly representative of women in Afghanistan, took part in the Summit, which helped bring the voices of Afghan women into the current international political discourse, ensuring that their message is heard.







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